Substitutional tin acceptor states in black phosphorus
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Nominally pure black phosphorus (BP) is commonly found to be a p-type semiconductor, suggesting the ubiquitious presence of impurity species or intrinsic, charged defects. Moreover, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of black phosphorus reveal the presence of long-range double-lobed defect features superimposed onto the surface atomic lattice. We show that both the p-type doping of BP and the defect features observed in STM images can be attributed to substitutional tin impurities. We show that black phosphorus samples produced through two common synthesis pathways contain tin impurities, and we demonstrate that the ground state of substitutional tin impurities is negatively charged for a wide range of Fermi level positions within the BP band gap. The localized negative charge of the tin impurities induces hydrogenic states in the band gap, and it is the 2p level that sits at the valence band edge that gives rise to the double-lobed features observed in STM images.
Date Issued
2021-10-21
Date Acceptance
2021-10-01
Citation
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021, 125 (41), pp.22883-22889
ISSN
1932-7447
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Start Page
22883
End Page
22889
Journal / Book Title
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Volume
125
Issue
41
Copyright Statement
© 2021 American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in . Phys. Chem. C, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c07115
Sponsor
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Identifier
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c07115
Grant Number
EP/L015579/1
Subjects
03 Chemical Sciences
09 Engineering
10 Technology
Physical Chemistry
Publication Status
Published
OA Location
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09808
Article Number
acs.jpcc.1c07115
Date Publish Online
2021-10-10